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Probation Violator Charged in Fatal Shooting of Kentucky State Trooper | Crime Alert 10.02.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking crime news now. I'm Sydney Silvani.
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  Speaker 1: A Kentucky community is in mourning after a routine traffic
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  Speaker 1: stop on Interstate 65 turned deadly, leaving a state trooper
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  Speaker 1: dead and a career criminal behind bars once again. 51-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Emoni Branch was denied bond Tuesday on a charge of
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  Speaker 1: murder of a first responder in the shooting death of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky State Police Trooper Hayden Phillips. Trooper Phillips, a 30-year-old
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  Speaker 1: three-year veteran assigned to Post 3 in Bowling Green, was
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  Speaker 1: a devoted husband and father of three young boys. On
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  Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, Phillips conducted a traffic stop in Warren County
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  Speaker 1: when he was senselessly gunned down on the side of
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  Speaker 1: the highway. A statewide blue alert was immediately issued, leading
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  Speaker 1: to branches capture later that evening in West Louisville by
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  Speaker 1: Louisville Metro police officers. Court records reveal Branch was serving
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  Speaker 1: five years probation for securities fraud and was actively wanted
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  Speaker 1: on a probation violation warrant before the shooting. Prosecutors emphasize
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  Speaker 1: Branch's extensive criminal history, including convictions for attempted domestic assault,
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  Speaker 1: violating a no-contact order, and a 2009 conviction for illegal
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  Speaker 1: firearm possession by a felon. Records show he was arrested
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  Speaker 1: twice this year alone for probation violations. Kentucky State Police
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Colonel Phillip Burnett Jr. condemned the suspect's cowardly actions,
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  Speaker 1: promising the agency will seek justice and stand beside Phillip's family.
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  Speaker 1: Phillip's wife, Jordan, shared her grief on social media, promising
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  Speaker 1: to stay strong and carry on for their three sons.
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  Speaker 1: At a news conference, U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner pledged the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department's full support to give state prosecutors every tool
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  Speaker 1: needed to pursue the maximum sentence. Hayden was murdered on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the road doing what is routine, doing
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  Speaker 1: a traffic stop. He was senselessly murdered. What do we
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  Speaker 1: have left? We have a wife that expected her husband
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  Speaker 1: to come home. We have three little boys who don't
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  Speaker 1: have a dad. Because he served us. Because he served
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  Speaker 1: our community. Because he wanted to keep each of us safe.
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  Speaker 1: A candlelight vigil for Trooper Phillips was held Thursday evening
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  Speaker 1: in Glasgow, and Governor Andy Beshear ordered state flags lowered
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  Speaker 1: to half-staff on Sunday, October 4th, urging prayers for the
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  Speaker 1: family and support for the Kentucky State Police Foundation. In Florida,
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  Speaker 1: a 29-year-old mother faces four felony counts of child neglect
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  Speaker 1: after allegedly abandoning her four young children, including a two-month-old
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  Speaker 1: infant and a two-year-old toddler, to go on a three-day
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  Speaker 1: Bahamas cruise. Natalie Belizer was arrested Monday, September 28, by U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Customs and Border Protection officers at Port Miami as she
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  Speaker 1: disembarked from the carnival conquest. The investigation began after the
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  Speaker 1: infant's father saw a post on Belizer's WhatsApp story depicting
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  Speaker 1: a cruise ticket purchase. The father visited her apartment Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and heard a television and children's voices inside without adult supervision,
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  Speaker 1: prompting his call to 911. When first responders forced entry,
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  Speaker 1: they found all four children hiding together in a bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Police confirmed the children were never dropped off with their great-grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: as Belizer claimed, and her brother reported receiving a text
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  Speaker 1: from her Saturday evening asking him to check on them.
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  Speaker 1: Belizer appeared in court Tuesday, September 29, where her bond
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  Speaker 1: was set at $ 10, 000 and she was ordered to stay
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  Speaker 1: away from her children, who are in foster care. The
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  Speaker 1: judge expressed shock at the defense's request for supervised visits. Judge,
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  Speaker 1: I would Ask for either free trial services with an
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  Speaker 1: alternate bond, please. Okay. And if you would agree to
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  Speaker 1: supervised visitation. I don't think I want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Who leaves the kids, four little kids alone? Judge, it's
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  Speaker 1: an allegation at this time. To go on a cruise. Judge,
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  Speaker 1: at this time, it's only an allegation. She denies the allegation.
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  Speaker 1: They arrested her disembarking from the cruise ship. I understand that, Judge.
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  Speaker 1: Belizer's formal arraignment is set for November 24th, with her
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  Speaker 1: attorney stating she denies the allegations. More crime and justice
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  Speaker 1: news after this. In Pennsylvania, a 32-year-old man with a
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  Speaker 1: criminal history dating back to 2016 is facing homicide and
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  Speaker 1: rape charges after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman before launching
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  Speaker 1: a deadly midnight home invasion hours later. Elijah Hemingway allegedly
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  Speaker 1: ambushed a woman Wednesday morning along a walking path in Wilkinsburg,
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  Speaker 1: sexually assaulting her and stealing her cell phone. Early Thursday morning,
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  Speaker 1: authorities say Hemingway broke into an Edgewood home in his
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  Speaker 1: underwear and launched a knife attack on a sleeping couple.
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  Speaker 1: 46-year-old pediatrician Dr. Idris Evans was killed while his wife
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  Speaker 1: sustained critical injuries. During the struggle, Evans' wife yelled for
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  Speaker 1: their children, ages 8 and 12, to escape. She told
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  Speaker 1: police the suspect appeared psychotic, claimed to be God, and
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  Speaker 1: that her husband called out the name Elijah, though police
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  Speaker 1: have not confirmed a prior relationship. When interviewed, Hemingway claims
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  Speaker 1: Evans invited him inside and attacked him, but detectives found
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  Speaker 1: no stab wound on Hemingway and recovered physical evidence connecting
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  Speaker 1: him to both crime scenes. Hemingway, released without bail in
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  Speaker 1: July for a February burglary, now faces seven charges, including
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  Speaker 1: criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary, rape, and sexual assault. For
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sydney Silvani.